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Lisa Cinelli lives and works in a studio filled with paints, brushes and tons of books. She loves color and travels everywhere with her sketchbook. Her lively sketchbooks fill many shelves in her studio.

Lisa Cinelli is a painter, children's book author - illustrator and instructor. She has an MA in Illustration from Syracuse University and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Lisa teaches Children's Book Illustration at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and teaches at Marwen Foundation, a Chicago based Arts Program for grades 6-12. She offers private classes in Children's Book Illustration, Picture Book Dummy - Portfolio Presentation, Printmaking and Painting & Drawing.

Lisa Cinelli's studio work ranges from commissioned portraits to painting and printmaking for her children's books. Studio visits can be arranged by appointment to discuss purchase of artwork or to commission a portrait.

She conducts interactive workshops and speaks nationally and internationally at schools and conferences on the world of picture book illustration and the art of weaving together the words and pictures of a story.

Her clients include:

• Cricket Magazine Group
• Holiday House
• Bebop Books
• Harcourt Brace Publishers
• Scott, Foresman Publishers
• David C. Cook Publishing Company
• World Book Publishers
• Enesco
• Nystrom
• Baxter Travenol
• "Children's Magic Window Magazine"

Lisa Cinelli is a member of:

• Society of Illustrators, New York
• CBIG, The Children's Book Illustrators Group, New York
• The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
• SCBWI-Illinois
• PictureBookArtists.org

She won the 1999 Don Freeman Memorial Grant-in-aid for Illustration.

Lisa Cinelli is represented by Etta Wilson, March Media, Inc.

Contact: lisacinelli@aol.com

Other Links:
PictureBookArtists.org
SCBWI Illinois
Children's Book Illustrators Group